anticipatio

Latin

Etymology

anticipo +‎ -tio. In the rhetoric sense, a calque of Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prólēpsis).

Noun

anticipātiō f (genitive anticipātiōnis); third declension

1. preconception, innate notion
2. anticipation
3. (rhetoric) prolepsis

   Synonym: anteoccupātiō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	anticipātiō	anticipātiōnēs
Genitive	anticipātiōnis	anticipātiōnum
Dative	anticipātiōnī	anticipātiōnibus
Accusative	anticipātiōnem	anticipātiōnēs
Ablative	anticipātiōne	anticipātiōnibus
Vocative	anticipātiō	anticipātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: anticipació
• English: anticipation
• French: anticipation
• Galician: anticipación
• Italian: anticipazione
• Portuguese: antecipação
• Romanian: anticipație
• Serbo-Croatian: anticipacija, антиципација
• Spanish: anticipación

References

• “anticipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anticipatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anticipatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.